#ZIP Drives
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Hi there,
I'll suggest something that you can do, though it may not work – you
have been warned.
Take the mountfile PC0: from the DEVS:dosdrivers, copy it, and rename it to
'ZIP0:'.
Next, edit this file in any text editor, and change the parameters concerning
the device driver to 'scsi.device', and the unit number to whatever unit you
ZIP drive is on your SCSI card.
You need to change the number of tracks to that of the ZIP drive. You can work
this out by: #tracks = size_of_disk_in_kb * 2.
And I think that's all you need – the device ZIP0: should be mounted when you
reboot, and you can treat it just like any Amiga disk drive. I'm assuming that
you have the SCSI version of the ZIP, if you have the parallel version, you'll
need to change 'scsi.device' to 'parallel.device', and perhaps a few other
things – someone else here should be able to help.
Regards,
Garrett
—–"I'll suggest something that you can do, though it may not work"——
Thanks! Actually, I was wondering myself if I could use PC0 or PC1, etc.
However, I did not think of editing the driver code. It may actually work! I do
not have the ZIP drives, yet. But, when I do , I am going to get the SCSI ones.
Anyone else reading this, I am still looking for other possible things to try!
Thanks, again, Garrett.
J. Morgan Trotter/TX
I have tryed the process described above (editing PC0:) to access my SyQuest
200Meg removeable SCSI HD. Amiga Dos recognozes it fine as an Amiga drive and
as PCHD: (my variation of PC0:) after formating it on the Amiga. But the
problem is the SyQuest has over 2000 cylindars. The Amiga has not problem with
any number of cyls but the PC drivers interpolate the drive to more heads with
less cyls. So what happens is the Amiga does one layout of PC format and the
IBM does a different layout of PC format. They will not recognize eachother.
So number of cylinders on the ZIP drive may be a concern.
If anyone out there has found a way to overcome this, PLEASE let me know.
There may be another way that I plan to try. Put a bridge card in the Amiga
and put a PC LAN card in the Bridge-PC side of the Amiga. Create a network
drive and use the Amiga Dos utilities to copy the files between the PC-Net
drive (actually on the Pentium) and Amiga Dos. Of course you will need a LAN
card in the Pentium also. This is my next plan of action.
Steve